Broadening the Debate on EUAfrica Relations
Broadening the Debate on EUAfrica Relations is designed to expand the scope of our understanding of the multi-layered relationship between the European Union (EU) and African political actors in order to shape both the academic and policy level discourses.
The focus on chapters highlighting an African perspective offers an opportunity to redress an imbalance in scholarship, and also represents an effort to reinvigorate the EU-Africa discourse. The contributors scrutinise hitherto underexplored areas, from agricultural cooperation to sanctions to scientific collaboration, as new insights linger in the less visible margins of the relationship. Jointly, they push in the same direction, to broaden the debate on how subjects are approached in a field of study that has one-sidedly focused on the effect of deliberate actions of the EU. To that end, three dimensions represent the common thread of the book: how to recalibrate African and European perspectives, how to proceed on an assumption of mutual influence rather than unidirectionality and how to highlight the intertwined nature of the different drivers of the relationship.
Recalibrating African and European perspectives by focusing on elements of reciprocity within the broad array of interregional interactions, Broadening the Debate on EUAfrica Relations will be of great interest to scholars of African Studies, African IR and the EU.
The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the South African Journal of International Affairs.
Frank Mattheis is a researcher at the Institut dtudes europennes, Universit libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Global Studies and specialises in comparative regionalism and interregionalism.
John Kotsopoulos is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in International Relations (University of Kent, UK) with focus on asymmetrical negotiations between the EU and Africa.
Broadening the Debate on EUAfrica Relations
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Contents
John Kotsopoulos and Frank Mattheis
Luckystar Miyandazi, Philomena Apiko, Tasnim Abderrahim and Faten Aggad-Clerx
Maurizio Carbone
Jo-Ansie van Wyk
Amr Radwan and Mahmoud Sakr
John Ouma-Mugabe, Petronella Chaminuka and Ana M P Melo
Arnold H Kammel
Jacob Lisakafu
The chapters in this book were originally published in the South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
A contextualisation of EUAfrica relations: Trends and drivers from a reciprocal perspective
John Kotsopoulos and Frank Mattheis
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 445460.
Chapter 2
AUEU relations: Challenges in forging and implementing a joint agenda
Luckystar Miyandazi, Philomena Apiko, Tasnim Abderrahim and Faten Aggad-Clerx
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 461480.
Chapter 3
Caught between the ACP and the AU: Africas relations with the European Union in a post-Cotonou Agreement context
Maurizio Carbone
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 481496.
Chapter 4
Sanctions and summits: Sanctioned African leaders and EUAfrica summits
Jo-Ansie van Wyk
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 497515.
Chapter 5
Exploring brain circulation as a concept to mitigate brain drain in Africa and improve EUAfrica cooperation in the field of science and technology
Amr Radwan and Mahmoud Sakr
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 517529.
Chapter 6
Characterising partnership for research and innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from the case of the AfricaEU ProIntensAfrica Initiative
John Ouma-Mugabe, Petronella Chaminuka and Ana M P Melo
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 531545.
Chapter 7
The European Union and security sector reform: South Sudan and the challenge of ownership
Arnold H Kammel
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 547561.
Chapter 8
Interregionalism and police cooperation against cross-border crime in East Africa: Challenges and prospects
Jacob Lisakafu
South African Journal of International Affairs, volume 25, issue 4 (December 2018), pp. 563579.
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Tasnim Abderrahim was recently a Visiting Fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. She previously worked as a Junior Policy Officer at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and as a Research Assistant with the Centre des Etudes Mditerranennes et Internationales (CEMI) in Tunis, Tunisia.
